Handle-attaching means



April 14, 1931. c GRAFF 7 1,800,684

HANDLE ATTAGHING MEANS Filed U012. 20, 1928 VENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Apr. 14, 19351 FATENT FFEQEE CHARLES GRAFF, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO BLACK, STAR AND FROST, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A COREORATION OF NEW YORK HANDLE-ATTACHING MEANS Application filed October 20, 1928. Serial No. 313,865.

This invention relates to certain improvements in means for securing a handle or the like of one material to an article of a different material.

In the production of certain articles, such as bowls or the like, such articles are frequently provided with handles, and it is sometimes desired to provide such articles with handles of a different and more expensive material than that of the articles to which they are attached. Thus, in the production of certain styles of silverware, it may be desired to provide a silver bowl or the like with handles of jade or other more expensive and different material than the silver of the bowl. Heretofore, however, the securing of jade handles to a silver bowl has been a matter of great difiiculty, as, owing to the hardness of the jade, it is diificult to properly drill the jade for attaching it to the bowl, and many pieces of the jade were broken, thus making the use of such handles almost prohibitive, owing to the cost of the jade.

It is an object of the present invention to provide means by which a handle or handles made of such a material as jade, may be attached to an article, such as a silver bowl, in such manner that all danger of breakage of the handle when being secured in position, is avoided, this means enabling the handle to be secured in position in an attractive manner, so as not to detract from the symmetry of the finished article.

A further object of the invention is to provide a simple means for efiecting this by the use of which the handles may be quickly and easily assembled with the article to which they are to be attached.

With this and other objects not specifically referred to in view, the invention consists in certain novel parts, arrangements and combinations as will be fully described in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the novel features pointed out in the accompanying claims.

Referring now to said drawings Figure 1 is a side elevation of a bowl and the handles attached thereto; and

Figure 2 is a detail sectional view, taken on the broken line 22 of Fig. 1.

Referring to said drawings, the finished article selected to show the invention is a silver bowl 1 having a pair of jade handles 2. It is to be understood, however, that the invention is not to be restricted to such articles or to handles of such material, but is capable of use with a wide variety of articles and handles of a material other than jade.

In accordance with the invention, improved means are provided for securing these handles to the bowl, so that all danger of injuring the jade is eliminated, the means being such that the handles are secured in position without drilling, perforating or the like, the material of which the handles are made. While these means may be somewhat varied, in the particular means illustrated, there is provided a pair of hollow projections 4, 5, which may be soldered or otherwise suitably secured on opposite sides of the bowl, these projections receiving the lowerends of the handles. Secured on opposite sides of the bowl. above the parts 4, 5, is an upper pair of sockets 6, 7. These sockets are capacitated to receive the legs 8, 9 of a holding frame 10, the outer face of which is formed with a pair of wings 11 and 12. The sockets 6, 7 are secured to the bowl sides in any suitable manner, as by soldering, and the holding frame is secured to the jade handles by bending the wings 11 and 12 around the outer side of the handles, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. The legs 8, 9 are then inserted in the sockets 6, 7 and suitably secured therein, as by pins 13.

It will be seen that, with the construction shown and described, the handles are securely held in associated relation with the bowl and all danger of injury to the jade is avoided, as no operation is to be performed on the jade itself to provide securing means. The parts are simply made, easily associated, and act to securely hold the handles in position.

While the invention has been shown and described in its preferred form, it will be understood that various changes may be made in the specific form and arrangement of the parts of the holding frame and that handles other than jade may be secured to articles other than silver bowls.

The invention is, l

therefore, not to be limited to the exact construction and arrangement shown and described.

What'is claimed is:

- 5 A means for securing a handle of one material to a bowl or similar article of another material, comprising a holdingframe having 'Wings bent around the handle and rigidly I holding the handle only by the shape of the 30 Wings, inwardlyirextending legs, and a leg receiving socket secured to the article to which socket the legs are secured.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set a my hand. 7 V 15 V CHARLES, GRAFF. 

